Emotional characters: we can relate to them when we bring them to life; and, therefore, they work for us.

Realisation

Create a character that has for the audience: a feeling of understanding and empathy. We always empathize with someone we feel sorry for- the way we set up victims- we understand why they are the way they are.

We feel sorry for them; and, we put ourselves in their position.

We empathise with someone who has humanistic qualities.

These are the traits that we admire.

Fascination

Concept of contrast. We love to see three conflicting engines.

Characters- inner personality and external situation and relationships or irony.

e.g.: Mrs Doubtfire-Robin Williams

Emotionally we understand and get involved with the personality of the character in our film.

We look at all the parts in isolation and how they are integrated with an emotional connection.

A Fish out of water- contrasting situation where you take a person out of a natural environment

eg: a boy from a loving family sent to a boarding school. Then you have complete chaos.

Audience makes a value judgment and emotionally feels something.

Everyone has a bias and different views or feelings; and will emotionally respond in a way that is governed by their emotional culture.

Mystery

Every character has a mystery. Audience asks “where did the character come from?”

Show the past, present and future.

Past will determine what the character will do in the present.

Something happened in someone’s past.

A mystery- gives the audience access to the characters’ past.

Who are these people?

What is it about this person that the audience needs to know about?

Audience is emotionally connected to the character.

Where and what type of person are they today, tomorrow and in the future.

Anaphora

Definition: to repeat a phrase or word at the beginning of a sentence or phrase or clause.

eg: In the dialogue for the Film Casablanca with Humphrey Boggart

The opening line is …"In all the joints, in all the towns, in the entire world, she walks into mine”…

Martin Luther King …"I have a Dream”…

Winston Churchill “We shall never surrender”

Anaphora is used in conjunction with Amplification and Climax:

Amplification means: to repeat an important word over and over again

Climax means: to go from lesser to the stronger order of words in the order of their strength and importance. You repeat words and order them in a climatic way of saying them.